Conceptions of Cosmos: From Myths to the Accelerating Universe
Subtitle: A History of Cosmology
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 15, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199209163
First sentence: The term 'cosmology' derives from Greek, essentially meaning the rational or scientific understanding of the cosmos, a word which to the ancient Greeks carried connotations such as 'order', 'regular behaviour' and 'beauty' (it is no accident that the word